False Assumption 3: Bishop Ussher's timeline is reliable and can be used to calculate
the age of the Earth.

Young Earth Creationists use Archbishop James Ussher’s chronology to date the
age of the Earth. Ussher assumed that the "begats" were the first living people on earth. Instead these early rulers of the Afro-Asiatic Dominion lived within the historical period and their reigns correspond to early Egyptian dynasties.

The Afro-Asiatic Dominion was essentially Kushitic and a vehicle for the diffusion of Horite religion. Dr Christopher Ehret confirms this in his "History in Africa." He writes, "The linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence combine in locating the origins of this family far south in Africa, in Eritrea or Ethiopia, and not at all in Asia. A complex array of lexical evidence confirms that the proto-Afrasian society belonged to the pre-agricultural eras of human history." (p.4)

Beginning with François Lenormant, the Kushite expansion into ancient Sumer/Chaldea has been well-documented. In Sumerian inscriptions the Kushites were called Meluha Kasi. Nimrod, the son a Kush built a geat empire in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley. He is known in history as Sar-gon the Great. Sar-gon is a title meaning "High King" or "King of Kings." The Elamite word for king is sunki, a cognate of the Hausa sarki, meaning king or ruler. The Sumerian word for king is sar and the Chadic word for ruler is gon.

Sargon the Great lived from about 2290 to 2215 BC, which is when his son Rimush (Ramesh) by his sister-wife ascended the throne. Alternative dates for Sargon the Great are 2360-2279, but these dates likely refer to his maternal grandfather after whom he was named. It was Sargon the Elder, not Sargon the Great, who conquered Nippur in 2340 B.C. and established his capital in Accad (Agade/Agadez).

Ussher didn’t recognize that the Genesis genealogies are regnal, not generational. The begats cannot be used to count generations because they are king lists and some kings ruled simultaneously. Others ruled for short periods, and still others ruled for longer than a generation (40 years). Further, some of the king lists are telescopic. These do not list every ruler.

The marriage and ascendancy structure was clearly well established among these powerful rulers, indicating that they had been in power long before Noah's time. The oldest known site of Horite religion at Nehken dates to about 4000 B.C. and reflects a high level of technological and cultural achievement.

Menes is
credited with first uniting the Upper and Lower Nile peoples into one Kingdom.
He wore the double crown to show
that he was sovereign over both regions. The serekh surrounding his name is
surmounted by the falcon, the totem of Horus. Horus was
called “son of God” at Nekhen.

At the Horus temple of Nekhen, votive instruments were ten times larger than the mace
heads and bowls found elsewhere, suggesting that this was a very prestigious
shrine. Horite priests placed invocations to the Creator at the summit of the fortress
as the sun rose. Likely, this is the origin of the sun blessings in Hinduism (the
Agnihotra morning ritual) and in Judaism (the Birka Hachama, or “Sun Blessing”
ritual performed every 28 years).

The Pattern of Two Wives and Two Sons

Horite rulers maintained two wives in separate households on a north-south axis. The ruler's first wife was a half-sister (as was Sarah to Abraham) and the second wife was a patrilineal
cousin or niece (as was Keturah to Abraham). The firstborn son of the half-sister wife ascended to the
throne of his biological father. So Isaac ascended to the throne of Abraham. The firstborn son of the patrilineal cousin or niece bride ascended to
the throne of his maternal grandfather, after whom he was named. So Abraham's son Joktan ascended to the throne of Joktan's the elder, his maternal grandfather.

The maternal grandfather would have had a sister wife and her firstborn son ruled, but not on the throne to which the cousin bride's firstborn son ascended. There was a hierarchy of chiefs, vassals and kings. Chiefs were placed over the separate settlements and the king would have maintained a residence with a shrine or temple at the sacred center between the two wives' settlements.

All other sons were given gifts of
camels, jewelry, flocks, herds and servants and sent away to conquer settlements
and build territories for themselves. The importance of these "sent-away sons"
as a driving factor in Kushite expansion should not be overlooked.

This
pattern is evident in the case of the Kushite kingdom-builder Nimrod. Nimrod,
one of Abraham's ancestors, is an example. He was ethnically Kushite but was
probably sent away from his older brother Ramah whose territory was in northern
Arabia. This explains why he regarded his mother as "lowly." She would have been
a woman of less wealth and status than the wife of Ramah, Kush's the firstborn
son. After numerous conquests, Nimrod’s territory was far greater than his
brother’s. It extended the length of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and within this
territory there were three principal cities: Babel, Erech and Accad in the plain
of Shinar (Gen. 10:10). The script used to communicate across Nimrod’s empire was Akkadian. It has close affinity to the languages of the Nile Valley.

Titles, not Proper Names

Ussher did not take into consideration is that Kushite rulers, like Egyptian rulers, did not name their biological fathers in
their king lists. This explains why many of the names are titles of royal persons ratehr than proper names. Enoch means "one to follow" or "one who replaces." It is a royal title.

The title Terah (Tera) means "priest." Abraham's father was Terah and he was associated with the royal
Ainu of the Upper Nile. Tera-neter means "one devoted to God." The title is associated with Het-u temples. The Het are listed
in Genesis 10 as descendants of Noah's grandsons Sidon and Het and were inhabitants of Canaan. (The dispersion of the Nilotic Ainu has been well documented at this blog.)

The Kushites believed that the ruler-priest was the
son of Re or Ammon whose emblem was the sun. The Pharaoh was called "son of Re" which is
why Egyptian texts never mention the king's earthly father. Kingship was
rather a manifestation of the solar deity's overshadowing of noble women. Sargon
the Great claimed not to know his father. He based his
authority to rule on the suggestion that he was conceived according to the Horite myth of miraculous
virgin conception. The proof of the ruler's diety was his resurrection from the dead. Sargon stayed dead, as did all the rulers of Egypt and Mespotamia. However, Jesus Christ, a descendant of their royal lines, did indeed rise from the dead and his rising was verified by many eye witnesses.

2 comments:

I'm reading your blog and am fascinated by what I'm learning about biblical history! Why haven't I heard this before? I especially love the post with the comparison of the Hebrew alphabet to the Japanese alphabet